[ Shame or Same ? ]

A young mans wanders to all sorts of exhibitions and trips to the places where art is all that’s talked about.  A visit to Rich Mix cinema with  That Grumpy Girl  to watch Shame . | By Teucer.

Brandon, played by Michael Fassbender, is a young executive living in New York who is fanatically obsessed with sex, porn and prostitutes, all overtaking every human feeling he may have. Though obsessed he tries hard to enter into his minds’ proceedings yet it is doubtful whether he can do it on his own, whether he can escape his own drives which he feels shame for.  Some light is shed into the mystery underlying the character when his sister Sissy, played by Carey Mulligan, visits to sing in town. Both seem to have a shared stigma; a trauma which agitates and which comes out as either sex addiction or in Sissy as an unhappy socio-path who embodies unhappiness by cutting her wrists, an act of utter despair.

Sensing Disgrace

This ever so entailing film captures the disgrace sensed or evoked by ones grim past, which ultimately raises insurmountable bars, which one cannot easily escape. The extent to which Brandon and Sissy are haunted by all that they have lived, the unsettling limbo they presently sense and the frustrating idea and the burden of tomorrow lead Sissy to attempted suicide and Brandon to excessive desperate animalistic sex. Both attempt to escape the entrapping sand dune that in encroaching their human nature.

Steve McQueen’s frustrating inferno Shame however fictional hails into the basic human needs which many of us arguably suppress, repress, not recognise or ignore.  Whatever describes ones ‘story’ if not settled with and acknowledged as integral ingredient of ones own ‘self-recipe’, will manifestly repeat itself to the point of utter paroxysm. Accept, Confront, Adorn ones persona with the teachings and Evolve.

[see the official trailer here]